10 Oasis songs that 'Rip Off' other songs

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Oasis co-frontman Noel Gallagher never made a secret of his use of other classic songs as building blocks in his new tunes. Of course, all songwriters are inspired by the work that came before them, but sometimes this recycling of older songs has got Noel and Oasis into hot water.
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SOURCES:
Have Oasis plagiarised Cliff Richard? The Guardian (2008): www.theguardian.com/music/200...
What you never knew about Definitely Maybe, Telegraph (2019): www.telegraph.co.uk/music/art...
Why Oasis were sued over the song Whatever (2023), RadioX: www.radiox.co.uk/artists/oasi...
The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash (1978): • The Rutles: All You Ne...
Oasis star's amazed he hasn't been sued, Gigwise (2006): web.archive.org/web/202203100...
Noel and Burt perform “This Guy's In Love With You” (1996): • Noel Gallagher - This ...
Noel Gallagher's greatest lifts, MusicRadar (2008): www.musicradar.com/news/guita...
Interview with Noel Gallagher: • Original Oasis about s...
How Oasis ripped off Stevie Wonder for a Britpop classic, FarOut (2021): faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-oasi...
'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Track by Track with Noel Gallagher: • Oasis - '(What's The S...
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0:00 Introduction
0:12 Cigarettes & Alcohol vs. T.Rex
0:57 Whatever vs. Neil Innes
2:25 She's Electric vs. The Beatles
3:32 Don't Look Back In Anger vs. John Lennon
4:02 Supersonic vs. George Harrison
5:04 Shakermaker vs. Coca Cola
6:44 GPU Audio
7:30 Half The World Away vs. Burt Bacharach
8:44 Importance Of Being Idle vs. The La's
9:17 Step Out vs. Stevie Wonder
10:19 Don't Go Away vs. The Real People
11:32 Patreon

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@DavidBennettPiano Ай бұрын

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@brusselssprouts560 Ай бұрын

Great vid, and is the reason I never respected this band of rubbish. Blur may have borrowed sounds, ut not to the extent these morons did.

@JupiterThunder Ай бұрын

Noel Gallagher should be in jail for his flagrant copyright infringement!

@thezachmarsh Ай бұрын

"You can't do that!" "I can, and I have, and I will...and you'll buy it, so fuck off" 😂😂😂😂😂

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

Gotta love that quote

@adamcoe Ай бұрын

There are a lot of people who'd like you to think they don't give a shit, but Noel is truly a no fucks given scenario. Absolute legend

@user-pc1ys7hn6v Ай бұрын

"You can't do that" Wow, he even ripped off a Beatles song in his response

@paulhamj6175 Ай бұрын

That quote is about as childish and pathetic as it gets...and is pretty much the norm for a big child like Noel. Only a man with some deep insecurities could so often come out with statements that reminds us of a schoolboy trying to convince the rest of the boys in the playground that he's a big tough guy eV though he always runs away whenever it looks like a fight is gonna break out. Haha he ought to grow up. Just shows you can't buy a bit of sophistication.

@MorningGlory-uu4hf Ай бұрын

@@paulhamj6175 Cry us a river

@lovelylemonfactory Ай бұрын

Noel's ability to give absolutely no shits will never be equaled.

@gasparucciox9706 Ай бұрын

he's just honest

@JR-es1sb Ай бұрын

This is the only comment needed. End of thread.

@jackmurphy6864 Ай бұрын

@@gasparucciox9706 And lacking talent to come up with his own tunes.

@jackmurphy6864 Ай бұрын

He has to just to admit to it when he reaches that level of plagiarism.

@gasparucciox9706 Ай бұрын

@@jackmurphy6864 no i don't think so, he wrote great songs with great choruses that everybody knows, everybody steal in pop music the harmonic structures of the songs are always the same from Vivaldi to Ramones, so it's automatic to "steal", sometimes you do it without even realizing it as Noel says in the video, that's how it is! we have thousands of melodies in our heads that, when you compose, they comes in your mind , it's inevitable

@EdgarRoock Ай бұрын

7:50 That is such a common chord progression ("Band on the Run" comes to mind). Herb Alpert may not have sued due to the risk of getting in trouble himself.

@joedurantguitar1447 Ай бұрын

I think it's mainly the Electric Piano outro that mainly sounds like TGILWY. It's not mentioned here

@DavidBennettPiano Ай бұрын

@@joedurantguitar1447 Yeah I should have mentioned that actually! Good catch

@EdgarRoock Ай бұрын

@@joedurantguitar1447 The outro leaves no doubt, indeed.

@ilips6588 27 күн бұрын

Reminded me of season of the witch

@user-ht5ed2ij5p 26 күн бұрын

I'm surprised there was no mention of "Silver Song" from Mellow Candles 1972 LP Swaddling Songs. Check out the intro.....go on.....take the time to make some sense...( Oh what a giveaway!)

@acherrett Ай бұрын

I’d love to see a video breaking down the techniques Neil Innes used to write such a convincing Beatlesesque catalogue for the Rutles.

@RatelHBadger Ай бұрын

Neil Innes and Eric Idle are unsung lyrical and melodic geniuses when it comes to parody/satire songs.

@Geraint3000 27 күн бұрын

Douglas Adams was asked 'Are Oasis as good as The Beatles?" Adams replied 'They're not even as good as The Rutles!' Anyone with half a brain could hear the rip offs going on with Oasis - the less educated didn't.

@ericrakestraw664 Ай бұрын

When told his song sounded like _____'s song, Noel Galagher was like "Whatever."

@g1lly1421 Ай бұрын

“When Noel Gallagher was questioned about his plagiarism, he denied it, using the smokescreen of “attitude “.

@illegal_space_alien Ай бұрын

@@g1lly1421 "You can't do that! I can, I will, I have. And you'll buy it, so fuck off." 🤣 The balls on this guy.

@phantomshadowfax5431 Ай бұрын

plagiarism implies intent. People who don't play/write music usually can't grasp how this happens as often as it does. Eric Claptons song Let it Grow is the same progression as Stairway to Heaven is a fun example of how this happens all the time unintentionally. That being said.. I'm not partial to Oasis either way but Noel is hilarious and I see no reason not to believe him. musicians spend more time playing than listening by nature if they're professionals.

@lakrids-pibe Ай бұрын

That's funny, because my reaction to the Gallagher brothers is just that; "Whatever"

@paulhaynes8045 Ай бұрын

Interesting thing to be impressed by. If you were burgled and when the burglar was caught (in fantasy land...) he just said 'whatever', how impressed would you be?

@dcassus Ай бұрын

Small correction. Step Out was included in early promos of WTSMG sent to the press in 1995. It quickly reached Stevie Wonder’s ears and that’s when they got in trouble and took the track out and the album was released the same year. About a year later they included it on the DLBIA single as a b-side. The video says it was the other way around.

@DavidBennettPiano Ай бұрын

Thank you for adding that info!

@keithws2779 Ай бұрын

I see you went for ears, rather than... You know what, nevermind.

@bencruise3156 Ай бұрын

@@keithws2779 to be fair I'd say Noel wishes it had reached him through...another method, he'd have saved himself a decent load of cash

@terrytt5067 Ай бұрын

Wtf do WTSMG and DLBIA stand for? Unfortunately us mere mortals don't carry "Crystal Balls" around with us so are completely baffled!

@DavidBennettPiano Ай бұрын

@@terrytt5067 what’s the story morning glory and don’t look back in anger

@PlanetoftheDeaf Ай бұрын

I think the legal cases with Noel's songs have been fair, in that where he's lifted too much he's had to share royalties, whereas just borrowing a riff or a couple of introductory chords can be justified as one writer "honouring" another, or "fair borrowing" which all song writers have done.

@radidov5333 Ай бұрын

yeah its a very complex issue, people tell it like is just that, noel said it as he's saying he lift it but even he knows that he really is not "lifting" a song and some cases even the riff (like in cigarettes and alcohol) coz I think we want to prove a point that no music its truly 100% original when "borrows, lifts, steals,etc" he's really just using some inspiration to create something new.. sometimes is really tiny sometimes is goes over like in the case of Step out.

@goodyeoman4534 28 күн бұрын

True. There is no clear line between a passing homage and a cynical steal. If it were that easy, ofc, loads more bands would be able to write better songs, but they can't. Film makers are an interesting comparison, like Tarantino, who constantly inserts little nods and homages and outright steals to other directors.

@radidov5333 28 күн бұрын

@@goodyeoman4534 also the fact that oasis/noel is in everybody mouth coz they were so successful but all the other millions doing the same without success nobody care/knows..

@dlovas Ай бұрын

The initial version of 'Shakermaker' even included lyrics from the cola song. Although they re-recorded the second verse, Liam still sang the original version during early Oasis performances. I find that reference amusing, as the whole song feels like it's coming from a bored working-class lad sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels.

@kevinericsnell4092 Ай бұрын

Doesn't that song also rip off lyrics from Monty Python's "Traffic Lights"? ^_^

@archangelmusic13 Ай бұрын

i hear the same tune in she's electric that i hear in that coca cola song, id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.oasis pretty much ripped off everything they ever did

@davedavid427 29 күн бұрын

I was always amazed they didn't get sued for that one. It's so blatant I knew the song the first time I heard the opening verse, and it's from a mega corp that you'd think wouldn't hesitate to be litigious.

@trillshox2281 24 күн бұрын

@@davedavid427 Coca cola did sue them actually they had to paid them 500k but then in 2012 they used Whatever in an advert so they probably got their money back and more 😂

@davedavid427 23 күн бұрын

@@trillshox2281 Ok that's just hilarious. Thanks for the info

@jakubkotlarek6979 Ай бұрын

There's one more (maybe smaller one). "All the young dudes" and "stand by me" by Oasis. Both in the chorus have very specific three chords at the end of line and then jump in at odd meter to the next line. Third out of those chords is different but overall it is extremely reminiscent 😀

@donniebiscuits5522 10 күн бұрын

true, this video could be a lot, lot, longer

@demonssinglosongs Ай бұрын

the main riff from the one i love by r.e.m. can be heard pretty clearly on morning glory. same timing as well, both songs are based around the riff. i also happen to love both for completely different reasons

@jwilloughby6175 Ай бұрын

No it doesn't and no they don't

@gordoncockfield Ай бұрын

@@jwilloughby6175also rem kicks oasis ass

@BeigeCoyote Ай бұрын

@@gordoncockfield Never compare a band as shit as REM to Oasis, cheers!

@gordoncockfield Ай бұрын

@@BeigeCoyote or the Beatles ay.. cheers

@BeigeCoyote Ай бұрын

@@gordoncockfield In English? Cheers

@JeremiahPickardMusic Ай бұрын

One I've always noticed is the turnaround after the chorus of Stand By Me is the same as the turnaround in All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople, written by David Bowie.

@baboon1233 Ай бұрын

Noel used the chorus melody of All the Young Dudes in Don’t Look Back in Anger. Listen to the guitar in the background in the last chorus. And he also used it as a riff in his cover of Mind Games by John Lennon.

@ale14zoppi Ай бұрын

That's a pretty cliche thing , I wouldn't call it plagiarism

@badgasaurus4211 Ай бұрын

@@ale14zoppiA lot of the examples in this video aren’t plagiarism. 2 chord vamps from Half the World Away and Don’t Look Back In Anger certainly aren’t

@variousthings6470 Ай бұрын

@@baboon1233 That All the Young Dudes melody is almost inaudible in the CD version of the track. I didn't hear it until I played the song in the Rock Band video game, which made that guitar line a lot more prominent.

@mark_lhr3 20 күн бұрын

That song was going to be sung by Noel. Originally.

@FrettedFlipper Ай бұрын

When performing shakermaker in the 90s (glastonbury 94 for instance), they sung some lyrics from Teach the world to sing in the last verse

@brianmulvaney9375 Ай бұрын

The most surprising thing about the title is that it is only ten .

@brianmulvaney9375 Ай бұрын

@@743lplkp wtf?

@ddlee84 27 күн бұрын

This could be an on-going series.....through pretty much all of Oasis's albums....and I would watch every one of them laughing lol

@furbees2662 25 күн бұрын

theres more songs

@yesackram 23 күн бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7KToNBz0LmbiJc.html Feeling supersonic?

@Vinyl_Dave Ай бұрын

Interesting what influenced some of Jeff Lynne's compositions. Eg. "Turn To Stone" (Four Tops), "Stange Magic" ("Ups And Downs", Eddysons), all released about 1967-68 when Idle Race were vying for the charts but never made it. "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" must have a comparison somewhere, also "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (Brown Sugar), Lynne's "Come With Me" actually quotes "Love Is Blue" in the lyrics! And one more - "Telephone Line" ("Hello How Are You" - Easybeats), also 1968!!

@23Daves Ай бұрын

And "Across The Border" ripped off The Beach Boys "Heroes and Villains". There's a case to be made for Jeff Lynne being the 70s equivalent of Noel Gallagher, though he appears a bit more modest about his work.

@Cian097 Ай бұрын

Nice to see the La's mentuoned. Theres also a tape of Lee Mavers talkin about how Oasis knicked his chords for wonderwall.

@Speedbird9L Ай бұрын

Nicked their drummer too, yeah?

@bosco7837 Ай бұрын

Yeah he also said Noel nicked the chord change D to Bm of one of his b-sides for Some Might Say. I remember the interview "not even in classical music you find a D to Bm change!!" 😂 Lee had more than a couple of loose screws, unfortunately.

@badgasaurus4211 Ай бұрын

Funny because they predate Lee and were in Mad World. You can’t own a chord progression

@Cian097 Ай бұрын

@@badgasaurus4211 in fairness to Lee, he didn't know it was being recorded, he said it half jokingly like if I remember correctly 'Noel must have heard the tape' or something like that. He didn't go trying to sue him or anything, and heck he may be right that Noel did hear the tape and use the chords. Lee, on that occasion, wasn't insisting he owned them or anything.

@4857i Ай бұрын

@@bosco7837Bm is the relative minor of D so its would fit together very easily

@divshearer Ай бұрын

He stole Rockin' Chair and Columbia from Chris Griffith as well. Chris actually got a writing credit on Rockin Chair.

@bosco7837 Ай бұрын

Surprised this video doesnt mention The Kinks at all. She's Electric has an entire line lifted from Wonderboy, and TIOBI comes from The La's who in turn got it from The Kinks' Dead End Street. Oasis nicked the videoclip as well, with the pallbearers and all.

@missmartyjackson Ай бұрын

Right! I kept waiting for Wonderboy. He needs to do a follow-up video! Ray Davies is so underrated.

@TheGalwayFarmer Ай бұрын

Even Green Day ripped off the Kinks

@chutalacagoneta6174 Ай бұрын

I was about to post this lol "AND I SEE YOU, AND YOU SEE ME"

@SkywalkerUk Ай бұрын

Hey do you think the middle guitar rift in Supersonic after Liam sings “Nobody could see, nobody could ever hear him call” was taken from the song Layla by Derek and the Dominos? Not seen anyone ever mention it before but it sounds identical.

@briandarcy5811 Ай бұрын

Another 2 obvious ones from Oasis: 1. Waiting For The Rapture - has the same intro as Five-To-One by The Doors 2. Who Feels Love? - the guitar solo halfway through is almost identical to Missunderstood by Motley Crue

@radidov5333 Ай бұрын

wow never heard this song by motley crue, but I can definitely I can hear that lil riff similar too at the end of Who feels love. I cant hear the solo being almost identical tho

@michaelmulhall5007 Ай бұрын

I would be pretty confident in saying Noel has never listened to one motley crue song start to finish in I think this one is coincidence. I see more dear prudence in who feels love

@JupiterThunder 27 күн бұрын

OMG when you're copying Motley Crue, you're really scraping the barrel.

@mjh5437 17 күн бұрын

@@michaelmulhall5007 Noel Gallagher is definitely a Glam Rocker and Headbanger on the quiet.

@mjh5437 17 күн бұрын

"Misunderstood" by Motley Crue is clearly ripped-off from Dear Prudence by The Beatles in the first place!! lolol

@davidjunto1008 Ай бұрын

Got to respect Noels upfront admittance of his writing style: " I'll take the same song you already know-- re-write it, re-record it, re-package it--and you will go out and fooking buy it..." Cheers, Noel (pronounced like "knoll")! 👍🎉👌🤟

@mechajaraxxus3510 Ай бұрын

knoll?????

@jeroenverbeeck7925 Ай бұрын

How do you respect that? It's extremely rude, just for the sake of being rude. Have better values than that mate

@GagzoD82 28 күн бұрын

Lol Tarantino does it, so everybody can do it. What fucked up logic. I hope that was a pisstake comment

@MyDrugHell 27 күн бұрын

Even his response is a Lennon rip-off (his interview style.)

@SlavaBanderastan 24 күн бұрын

pronounced knob

@zanez9621 Ай бұрын

I understand that sometimes people have similar ideas, but how many of these 'similarities' does it take before it's just stealing haha. As a big Oasis fan, I loved the video!

@justin81706 23 күн бұрын

What song did the steal for wonderwall? I saw it somewhere but can't find it now.

@quite.unloveable Ай бұрын

8:03 the ending bit of half the world away actually features the same exact synth-ish sound and progression of bacharach’s tune… so the ending is much more similar to it than the beginning included here

@hoorash Ай бұрын

I don't remember the name of the song but the guitar solo from Don't Look Back in Anger is almost identical with the one of song from Screamadelica by Primal Scream.

@badgasaurus4211 Ай бұрын

The overall arc is similar but the notes played and phrases are wildly different.

@jwilloughby6175 Ай бұрын

More like imagine at the start

@brunosouza8802 Ай бұрын

Probably is the song named "Damaged"

@hoorash Ай бұрын

@@brunosouza8802 haha thanks. i was too lazy to find it by myself. it's just 100% rip-off lol

@Sannahmusic Ай бұрын

I have heard so much music in my life that I can never be sure not to copy anything somebody already wrote before. A great part of music just "happens" while writing the voicing. I hope and pray that I will always evade the nightmare of being sued for unwanted copyright infringements.

@ElectroPanPipes 26 күн бұрын

There’s a huge difference in being influenced or inspired by. These, like Led Zeppelin are blatant rip offs. So unless you’re actively thieving like Noel, you’ll be fine

@Sannahmusic 26 күн бұрын

@@ElectroPanPipes Thank you for your kind words. I usually write on a theoretical kick-off, e.g. exploring a scale, a rhythm, a mood, an instrument, a poem. When I take previously existing material, I give a hint. I try to avoid quotations from copyrighted stuff, though, because it would make things unnecessarily complicated.

@frenko_ Ай бұрын

I don’t know if anyone noticed it but I’ve always found a similarity between Paul and George’s part (chord progression) on Free As a Bird and the bridge sung by Noel on Let There Be Love. Cheers :)

@nickdryad Ай бұрын

There is a lyric in Don’t look back in Anger “….cos the brains I had went to my head”😊 is actually a Lennon quote.

@melola590 Ай бұрын

Thats not ripping off though😭 they've quoted the Beatles members many times

@nickdryad Ай бұрын

Isn’t it? Using a quote from Lennons audio memoirs is a direct rip from another writer, speaker. There’s allusion, quotation and reference. Allusion is indirect and requires cultural knowledge, quotation requires attribution, reference requires the listener/ responder to be able to know the source and the quote may only be similar to the original. It’s a rip. Lennon did it too.” Life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans” is Betty. Talmadge.

@MrBillyboyroge Ай бұрын

⁠@@nickdryadlet’s here your songs then?

@nickdryad Ай бұрын

@@MrBillyboyroge “hear” not “here”. Yeah I’d love to play them for you but I don’t have a record deal yet and I won’t put them on KZfaq or whatever.

@riperiver Ай бұрын

@@nickdryad So by that logic, Freddie Mercury was ripping off Marie Antoinette (which she can be classified as a Speaker) when he used her quote "let them eat cake" - What Noel wrote was still technically a reference as we are having this conversation, people caught on and recognised it thus making it a reference. I wouldn't classify it as a rip, musicians and writers take from each other all the time. Just look at today's music... everyone is sampling something from the 60s onwards.

@Windupchronic Ай бұрын

Not to mention the similarities in the chord progression for All Around the World. It's basically the same as Eight Days a Week, just in a different key. "All round the world / tell em what you heard" "Ooh I need your love, babe / guess you know it's true" Or the sheer abundance of Beatles lyrics that appear in their songs. I mean, they literally have a line in a song that's "Fool on the hill and I feel fine."

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

Or "You can ride with me in my yellow submarine"

@ranzorr Ай бұрын

Or "Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon"

@dondamon4669 Ай бұрын

There nothing alike and you don't understand music do you? I can't think of any band or solo artist who doesn't reference other songs, it's called folk music and this is how folk music works, it's how bands get remembered

@Windupchronic Ай бұрын

@@dondamon4669 This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Thank you for the morning hilarity.

@michaelmulhall5007 Ай бұрын

@@WindupchronicA lot of the time with the Beatles referenced in the lyrics it was homage to the Beatles what’s wrong with that ? Do you take yourself and music that serious? Oasis changed peoples lives they never claimed to be great musicians or pioneers at the start. It was party music look if we can do it anyone can there was a great message to them. They also developed as they got older first single supersonic to last single falling down couldn’t be any different.

@philipshaw9485 Ай бұрын

The one that slips under everybody's radar is in she's electric, it's the latter part of the chorus. Utube The BBC's childrens Show from the 1970's titled You and me, listen to the intro song and then try to tell me that you can't hear it, it's a brilliant piece of thievery. I'm the same age as Noel and I can certainly imagine him coming home from school as a 7 year old and watchin the children's hour on TV as we all did, Reworking a kids shows theme tune into a classic rock song is his best to date

@FoxBox72 Ай бұрын

I just commented this, then saw youd beaten me to it. Lyrics and melody are very obviously taken from the TV theme. I'm a certain age too and I'll always remember the very first time I heard "she's electric" and thought "Hey! Hold on a minute...!"😂

@andrewdavy9921 Ай бұрын

@@FoxBox72Get it on by T-Rex = cigarettes and alcohol, thieves...

@BigSlinky7 Ай бұрын

'You and me, me and you, lots and lots for us to do, lots and lots for us to see, me and you, you and me...' noticed it the first time I heard She's Electric and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere until seeing your post.

@philipshaw9485 Ай бұрын

@@BigSlinky7 yep, it slips under the radar, but I love the thought of little Noel running home from school in his short pants, clutching onto his satchel then sitting down in front of the telly nodding his little head from side to side along to the Me and You theme tune and then all those years later laugh his little head all the way to the bank

@casinodelonge 13 күн бұрын

came for this comment - did not leave disappointed.

@realitycheck7553 2 күн бұрын

I think sometimes people have to realise these weren't necessarily rip offs but polite nods towards who inspired them. Like they wanted you to check out the beatles so little riffs and things were put in intentionally

@joshdeegan91 20 күн бұрын

One more for you - Fade Away and Freedom by Wham! Seriously, the first two lines "Every day I hear a different story, people saying that you're no good for me..." sounds exactly like "When I was young I thought I found my own key, I knew exactly what I wanted to be..."

@Kossman58 Ай бұрын

Besides the intro to Don't look back in anger being taken from imagine, the verse is essentially Let it be. Part of the Queue is very reminiscent of Golden Brown.

@keithwellerlounge74 Ай бұрын

I mean you could make these sort of cases for every band ever. A song will always sound similar to another song. It’s just whether the song is well known enough for people to care.

@goodyeoman4534 28 күн бұрын

True. But Let It Be uses a ridiculously common chord progression that had been used countless times before that song. DLBIA uses the E major rather than Em to give the verse a bit of a twist.

@mariuspoppFM 23 күн бұрын

@@keithwellerlounge74I'll be glad to steal some object from your house since they all look like other people's objects then

@mariuspoppFM 23 күн бұрын

It's time y'all w@nkers stop making excuses for ripoffs and hacks

@elmasprode Ай бұрын

I think that there's two Oasis songs inspired by All The Young Dudes, written by Bowie and played by Mott The Hopple. First one being Don't Look Back in Anger, which feels like the same song but more rock, and Stand By Me, both doing the same quite peculiar chord progression in the end of every chorus line.

@TheGalwayFarmer Ай бұрын

Doesn't Don't Look Back in Anger have the All The Young Dudes melody buried right down in the mix?

@elmasprode Ай бұрын

@@TheGalwayFarmer yeah, in the last chorus the melody is played with the guitar

@colingeddes2172 21 күн бұрын

Noel has openly admitted hes ripped off other tunes and turned them into even better songs and long may it continue. The man is a genius.

@MikeRolls Ай бұрын

I read in one interview with Noel that he loves The Wall by Pink Floyd and particularly Nobody's Home - and actually you can hear its influence in a lot of his songs, in particular Don't Look Back in Anger.

@dadsmarmelade Ай бұрын

I hear "Dead end" by the kinks in importance of being idle.

@lovelylemonfactory Ай бұрын

Definitely, they even copied the video

@greenbrightly Ай бұрын

Yep

@PhillipGregoryMusic Ай бұрын

the thing is, you play what you listen to. it comes out naturally sometimes.

@maverator Ай бұрын

More time has passed between She's Electric and now than has passed between While My Guitar Gently Weeps and She's Electric 😢

@LukasOfTheLight Ай бұрын

That's fucking outrageous.

@danielplainview2584 Ай бұрын

Next up: 30 Led Zeppelin songs that “rip off” other songs

@yoniyoko Ай бұрын

Green Day songs that "rip off" their older songs

@L_Train Ай бұрын

More like 50

@thealextrifier Ай бұрын

He already did one but yeah I imagine there’s plenty more Led Zeppelin songs that do that

@Toto.Reyes16 Ай бұрын

10 led Zeppelin songs that DON'T rip off other songs

@leedsmanc Ай бұрын

@@Toto.Reyes16 Incomprehensible.

@marlonnegrao3521 Ай бұрын

Another one: Waiting For The Rapture (Dig out your soul Album) is very similar to "Five to one", by the doors.

@TheTurningWheel1 29 күн бұрын

On the same album is "The Turning" which sounds almost identical to the start of "Devil Woman" by Cliff Richard. :D

@dannycarter1966 Ай бұрын

I remember when one of the Gallaghers worked at the IMO along Stockport Rd., Longsight. They should have never gone beyond that.

@paulbradley705 16 күн бұрын

And you have done nothing with your life.they don't think of you but you give them free publicity.

@luarmand 9 күн бұрын

Also i have to say that "All around the world" is very similar to "Jam Band" from the disco band Disco Tex and the Sex O Lettes which is amazing too.

@kingloser4198 Ай бұрын

I always thought that solo from Supersonic certainly had the same vibe as the instrumental theme song of Taggart (1985) the guitar solo certainly did 🙂 I guess they both got influenced by My Sweet Lord. Hale And Pale Oaday still makes me laugh. The songs are so funny

@cliveog Ай бұрын

I always saw Oasis as just a Beatles tribute combo, but seems here they actually ‘borrowed’ from lots of artists.

@TheSunTheSea 27 күн бұрын

Such a weak take. All bands build off from their influences. Oasis was no different

@JupiterThunder 27 күн бұрын

@@TheSunTheSea There are 'influences', and then there's such blatant ripping off that it amounts to copyright infringement and your reputation is in the gutter.

@WookieGolgberg 25 күн бұрын

The beatles did the same thing so whatevs. More songs the merrier. I love hearing multiple versions of the same idea. If you dont, go ride a walrus into rough seas. Sail beyond mankind across the ocean until your soul becomes mist and you are left as the pure essence or yourself. Muguckly Boonpancake Feel the breeze under the sauce. Thanks kevin and the golden twins for their efforts against the Fecal Matter Inc., toilet brush conglomerate trying to sue my dad.

@AdamSmith75th 25 күн бұрын

I’ve never got the ‘Beatles tribute’ insult to Oasis…they sound nothing like the Beatles, they’re closer to punk music then the Beatles

@Dawsonexperience 25 күн бұрын

So the beatles didn't copy anything from 50's rock n roll then? 🤔 😂

@vaultboy3100 Ай бұрын

Another example Same Sized Feet - Stereophonics and The Hindu Times

@hardin_of_astora Ай бұрын

The 12-bar blues part Bonehead's playin in Shakermaker sounds also familiar to The Beatles' song "Flying", I wonder if Noel as a huge Beatles fan was also inspired by that. On the other hand it's a 12-bar blues, so who knows

@MSimp2k6 Ай бұрын

KZfaq is reading my mind. A few days ago, I was looking for easy piano songs to learn FROM MY MIND, and ... I learned the chords to "Don't Look Back in Anger". And I thought to myself, "hmm, that's odd, doesn't it sound a lot like _imagine_?" Why yes, yes it does.

@leonnoel9702 Ай бұрын

there’s a lot of similarities between Wonderwall and Serge Gainsbourg Bonnie and Clyde, the mood and the end are the same

@Junkbot-si5er Ай бұрын

The line from dlbia "you said the brains i had went to my head" is a quote from john lennon.

@deathkampdrone Ай бұрын

That song by Stevie Wonder towards the end, I think Dancing in the Streets sounds more like it than Step Out does. But yeah. Great vid man :)

@sb6482 27 күн бұрын

Dave, Dont Look Back In Anger and the Step Out B-side came out in like Feburary 1996; 4 months after the album came out. The decision to omit it from What the Story Morning Glory was made the summer before albeit Stevie Wonder might be the reason it was missed off

@thealextrifier Ай бұрын

I miss these videos 😮😃 One thing to also note is that She’s Electric also borrowed from the song called ‘I’d like to buy the world a coke’ And so did their song Shakermaker. As you just showed in this video. And when Noel was sued for it all he had to say was ‘eh we drink Pepsi now.’ And that’s not the only song Shakermaker borrowed from! The guitar melody (or at least the first two notes of that melody) may have been inspired by Anthem by Ringo Starr.

@thesaltwastaken Ай бұрын

didnt coca cola literally copy "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"

@thealextrifier Ай бұрын

@@thesaltwastaken I thought they parodied it. Maybe I’m mistaken

@Speedbird9L Ай бұрын

The lyric, “Cause I’ll be you and you’ll be me” does fit quite well with “I’d like to teach the world to sing” - but I’m not sure it’s close enough to say it was borrowed from that song.

@CeceliPS3 Ай бұрын

Same. That's why I subscribed.

@thealextrifier Ай бұрын

@@Speedbird9L i meant the melody. i see what you mean though. Could've just been influence rather than plagiarism

@JBDazen Ай бұрын

There's a version of Shakermaker somewhere, sung by Noel, where he actually sings: "and nooooow we all drink Pepsi". 😂

@BeatPoet67 24 күн бұрын

I've never listened to Robert Fripp (consciously) or King Crimson. But I have seen him supporting Toyah on their YT excursions from time to time. To find out that he played that haunting guitar part on one of my favourite songs of all time blows my mind.

@Music-tg5is 26 күн бұрын

Another one is the verse from Oasis song "Fade Away" and the verse from "Freedom" by Wham! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htFyjL2Vv5m2n30.htmlfeature=shared&t=25 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyngtZez9-ZY3U.htmlfeature=shared&t=88

@JupiterThunder Ай бұрын

I love the Rutles. Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry. Great band!

@JupiterThunder 27 күн бұрын

"All You Need is Cash"...and so forth...

@68corvette08 Ай бұрын

2:06 The cello part reminds me of the Beatles' song "I Am The Walrus".

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

Which Oasis has covered

@mrmatthews18 Ай бұрын

The cigarettes and alcohol intro is also identical to Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by the hollies...this came out the same year and t-rex song...but is even more similar to the oasis track. I'd be interested to find out what came first.

@andrewdavy9921 Ай бұрын

T-Rex should sue, Get it On was ripped off and made in Cigarettes and Alcohol

@baldcuts5977 Ай бұрын

@@andrewdavy9921 its a basic blues riff

@FoxBox72 Ай бұрын

No-one mentions the theme tune to 1970s children's TV series "You and Me", the lyrics and melody of which were utilised in the chorus of "She's Electric".

@freddiesmith7821 Ай бұрын

Correct. First time I heard it I heard she's electric I new he'd pinched it off me and you. I'm 6 months older than N Gallagher so he would have been watching kids TV same time as me

@sydneyirishblues Ай бұрын

As a side note, The La's borrowed the Clean Prophet sequence from The Kinks

@SW-fn7cl Ай бұрын

The Kinks could def have sued a lot of people 😂

@issigonis975 Ай бұрын

There will come a point every combination will become copyright and then all new bands will be doing is paying fees to some claimed songs. Who cares unless it is a full on one to one it is still music and art. There is the Jethro Tull song We Used To Know that another famous band used to create a classic but Ian Anderson did not go chasing them in the court and now we have two classics. Not a fan of Oasis but they have added to the music pantheon however you want to see it.

@joedehaas Ай бұрын

Another one is Morning Glory, which borrows the exact riff from The One I Love by R.E.M. Might be the reason why they got the only ever R.E.M. diss track thrown at them, The Wake Up Bomb ("Supersonic... What a joke")

@hatefuleightyseven2962 Ай бұрын

What about Some Might Say & Fuzzy?

@17primemover Ай бұрын

The irony is that Noel seems to think he's the most brilliant musician who ever lived.

@BoardLPs Ай бұрын

he still is one of the best from the last couple decades, not an easy thing to do, especially this impactful

@MrBillyboyroge Ай бұрын

Song writer and musician are two separate things

@robertwatson5104 Ай бұрын

He’s really not

@radidov5333 Ай бұрын

how you can possibly know what he really thinks?..

@DNGMaestro Ай бұрын

He’s definitely one of the best.

@drbosommd 26 күн бұрын

What ? Only ten of them ? Is this just a top ten ?

@ranzorr Ай бұрын

Another one that's been mentioned by Noel himself is how "Some Might Say" is based on "Fuzzy", by Grant Lee Buffalo. The initial notes on both songs opening verses are basically the same.

@JayPhonomancer Ай бұрын

Wow really? Fuzzy is one amazing song

@ranzorr Ай бұрын

Yeah, I love it too. No wonder Some Might Say's one of my favorite Oasis songs. I saw Noel talking about it in an interview a while back.

@radidov5333 Ай бұрын

oof..i mean thats the thing, its so small ..he uses so many small things from what he hears and in his head they all get mixed and the end product is something new and all these lil bits

@bramleydragon Ай бұрын

That last clip of Noel just proves what he even admitted himself, he's an arrogant bastard.

@matsetizar65 Ай бұрын

Oh my, it’s worse than I thought.

@ramalama9650 Ай бұрын

If you are older and enjoy listening to music then it is almost impossible to listen to an Oasis album. All that keeps jumping out at you is the tracks he's stolen from. It's that bad. If you are younger, not that bright, not really into decent music and follow the crowd, in an 'Emperors New clothes' sort of way, it's 'Orr, mate, bangin' innit mate, best tune me ever heard mate, sooooorted' As you were! (If you know what I mean?) Mate.

@baldcuts5977 Ай бұрын

@@ramalama9650 you sound fun. best song writer of a generation. lennon stole plenty a song people dont shit on him for that same with led zepplin. great artists steal.

@pappagoomba456 27 күн бұрын

@@ramalama9650 Womp Womp

@icantthinkofanamerightnow7967 19 күн бұрын

@@baldcuts5977 oh yeah because nothing's better than basic chords, in 4/4 being used in the simplest way, with beginner level drums, lazy lyricism, and awful vocals, really love it

@ashpulse8681 4 күн бұрын

Go on then. If it’s that simple where’s your albums. I’ll wait.

@arigones 4 күн бұрын

Oasis definitely came out with an amazing finished product on all of these - whatever people may think. I would have loved to have seen more bands sounding like the Beatles.. I was aware of some of these tunes. Axe Corner (Tortuga) has stunned me! Columbia (my favourite Oasis tune ever). Oasis’s take and improvisation is phenomenal. And they institutionalised that refrain! Looking at the comments I don’t see anyone picking up on ‘Oasis - The Turning’ / ‘Devil Woman - Cliff Richard’. I understand a lot of the negativity here. Oasis were a band who helped me through my youth with a variety of things. If they had to use other peoples lego to make a SuperCastle - so be it! It sounds f&%/ing better! 🙂

@dadamdilby Ай бұрын

Don't look back in anger has the exact same melody as Pink Floyd's "Vera" on the line "does anybody else in here feel the way I do?".

@scottall71 Ай бұрын

I love parodies, parody in general, and when the musician gives a nod to their favorite artist, I think that's the greatest honor. What you brought out about Neil Innes - and the connection with Oasis, I hadn't heard before. Which is great because Neil got hammered with copyright infringements for his [quite intentional but still I feel creative work] Beatles references. As a songwriter, it's SO easy to accidentally use a few chords that sound good together and suddenly you committed a copyright violation. But when you purposefully do it, and then creatively work it into a new work - there are allowances for it. I see no problem with it and it's not like you are blatantly stealing or taking credit for work [aka 2-3 chords that sound good together.] There's so much work that goes into a song, the time signature, chords, rhythm, key, the lyrics, the recording and overall production... Unfortunately, all that work can be subject to court hearings and how the money gets divided, in the end. Noel explains it 🙌 in his interviews!

@radidov5333 Ай бұрын

at the end of the day . he is just using bits of bits of bits to create something new... I remember even back in 1994 all the big music magazines were already saying that and loving it !

@mattcooper1670 Ай бұрын

I always thought the chord progression from 'Whatever' was nabbed from the opening of Bob Dylan's 'Is Your Love In Vain?'

@GM-bq6zo Ай бұрын

If you listen to 'fade away', it sounds like a wham song, but the verses and first line of each verse is like help by the beatles. 'when I was young..' 'and now my life..' both in A then C#Minor

@FloatingOnAZephyr Ай бұрын

He’s made millions and won’t care, but artistically it’s pretty naff. There’s always that age-old debate about how many songs can you really write and how close do they really sound yada yada, but some of these are very obvious rip-offs, and any way you slice it that’s just not a good look. I was a huge Oasis fan in their pomp, but I very rarely listen to them any more. I wonder if their sheer derivativeness is subconsciously why I find them uninteresting in retrospect.

@budholeboodoo2308 Ай бұрын

Live Forever is almost the exact same chord progression as This Charming Man by The Smiths.

@reillywalker195 Ай бұрын

It's a fairly common chord progression, though, so it's hard to say where Noel actually got it from.

@TheGalwayFarmer Ай бұрын

Which you can't tell from the sonng, only when Marr played it with his loop pedal

@budholeboodoo2308 Ай бұрын

@@TheGalwayFarmer Until I saw that video of Marr playing it a few months back I had no idea they were so similar.

@CymruCelt01 Ай бұрын

There’s a Status Quo song called Lonely Man from their album Quo, released in 1974. Anyone who here’s Lonely Man whenever I’ve played it, all ask if it’s an Oasis song.

@RobertOrgRobert Ай бұрын

# I’d like to teach, Liam to sing , in perfect harmony

@johnycat7373 Ай бұрын

Omg…so funny….

@mainsmain 28 күн бұрын

@@johnycat7373it is

@hbofbyu1 Ай бұрын

Wow! I like Oasis even less after listening to Liam Gallagher. What a dooosh.

@markrussell5587 Ай бұрын

Yep. I can happily say I never bought any -so he can f-off. lol

@paulhamj6175 Ай бұрын

That was Noel, not Liam. And yeah, what an arrogant moron he was being there.

@HJPhilippi Ай бұрын

If all that's left of your work as an “artist” is the realization that it was all just stolen... what a poor rich wretch!

@willowcolios5248 14 күн бұрын

Was the 2 seconds of What’s the story morning glory at the end a nod to the fact that it’s a total rip from REM’s The One I Love ?

@chrisreid9341 Ай бұрын

Some early vinyl test pressings of What's The Story Morning Glory still had Step Out present... holy grail stuff.

@Paulnap Ай бұрын

They are not the most original composers but give them a break. It's RnR. Some of these are just 2 chords combination or a 5 seconds section. Dont look back in anger intro has nothing to do with the rest of the song. It's like doing an "Eric Clapton rips off" or "Zeppelin" video. They play blues, what do you expect?

@danielburger1775 Ай бұрын

To be fair, the entire Beatles catalogue was based on earlier music as well.

@l555mat8 Ай бұрын

They ripped off loads of American blues and rhythm acts from the 50s, but Beatleites don’t like hearing that….

@mikeanaro Ай бұрын

Maybe, but we are talking about Oasis here, which is not even a tenth of the Beatles´ left nut.

@Bladavia Ай бұрын

This is just how music works, we have only 12 notes to chose from, there's a limited number of ways to arrange those 12 notes so that they sound good, we need to fit them in a 4/4 grid, and we write in a recognizable style, a genre. That actually leaves very little space to be truly original. Music is about building on the shoulders of giants.

@BeigeCoyote Ай бұрын

@@mikeanaro Oasis in mine and many other's eyes are better than The Beatles. It's all down to personal preference, which people like you don't seem to understand.

@andrewdavy9921 Ай бұрын

@@BeigeCoyoteyou don't know what good music is then

@caliente-frio3966 Ай бұрын

Here's another one I never see get mentioned. Listen the verses in *Fade Away* ("When I was young I thought I had my own key...") Sounds a lot like the verses from *Freedom* by Wham! One of the Wham! verses even has a line that ends in "key" as well.

@frodev728 Ай бұрын

Great video David. Your videos are always pretty great, but as an 80s child who learnt guitar aged 14 mostly on a heavily Oasis based diet, this video in particular was very enjoyable for me… :)

@Mrvictorfernandes Ай бұрын

There's a story about Oasis from the early days when they used to rent a communal rehearsal space in Manchester to work on their first album. According to the story, other bands that rented the complex would stop and hear Oasis rehearse the same ten songs over and over again, and after a while it became obvious to them that their songs were blatant rip offs of other well known songs. This led to one of the band members that used the facilities to go over to Oasis' rehearsal room door, and posting a note that read: "Get your own riffs!"

@armondtanz Ай бұрын

they did also lend themselves to the real peoples sound, go listen to a song called window pain, its painfully obvious

@svivian Ай бұрын

Clean Prophet sounds exactly like London Calling.

@samuelheron2549 Ай бұрын

Another one to note in She's Electric is the "I'll be you and you'll be me..." Lifted from Wonder Boy by The Kinks 😀

@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx 26 күн бұрын

Apparently Noel Gallagher's farts sound just like the farts of the bloke next door.

@Phobero Ай бұрын

Only 10? 🤨😅

@lt.reubenrozeyt5716 Ай бұрын

I mean when a song just happens to use one same chord at the beginning Is it really a rip off?

@diedichtung2183 Ай бұрын

great vid. most of these are frankly shocking. are there any examples of liam plagiarizing (when he started writing songs)?

@Julian-hb4ns Ай бұрын

I was hearing an old classic rock song the other day on the radio (can't recall the band or artist but it might had been Jimmy Hendrix) and I kept thinking 'this sounds quite similar to f*cking in the bushes'... After watching this I have no doubt that it was not a coincidence 🤣

@petestewart2701 Ай бұрын

"David Bennett Music" will tell people what you're about & not deter non-pianists

@AdamAdam-wb4mo Ай бұрын

I agree with this

@BeatlesCentricUniverse Ай бұрын

I was born in the 50s, and my musical sensibilities developed from the music of the 60s. I have NEVER understood the popularity of Oasis. They seem like a really average band that basically ripped off everybody. As this video readily demonstrates. Please don't label me a Boomer yelling at clouds. Someone PLEASE explain their popularity.

@markrussell5587 Ай бұрын

I can't but, probably to do with it being fashionable "to not give a fuck" for a certain age group, and for some context back in the 90's (I was a teen and wasn't a fan btw :D ) Manchester was a having a musical hay day. You might like to watch the films like "24 Hour Party People" and there are some on Joy Division as well. You can google for bands and Madchester, but the city became popular and you had dance stuff like the Hacienda, and ... A Guy Called Gerald, New Order/Joy Division, Primal Scream, 808 State, the chemical brothers, the fall, stone roses, The smiths/Morrissey, Happy Mondays, the Verve, The Charlatans, M-people, Simply Red, Buzzcocks, James, Take That - I don't know loads of stuff.

@TicketTooooRide Ай бұрын

As much as you can hear clear influences from Slade, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles ex. they still managed to bring their spirit to the music. Songwriting-wise they weren't original, they never claimed to be, but the songs were great, and a league above everyone else that came during the 90s. People tend to praise Kurt Cobain for his songwriting, and while he's great, Noel Gallagher's melodies are more dynamic and meticulously crafted. They also came out at the end of the grunge movement and were a strong contrast to its nihilism, therefore when songs like "Supersonic" and "Live Forever" were released, they acted as an antidote and turned the culture around. Their working-class background also lent authenticity to their music, allowing kids to connect with the harsh reality of everyday life while simultaneously feeling inspired by their message of possibility and hope.

@andrewdavy9921 Ай бұрын

@@markrussell5587Primal Scream are from Glasgow, most of those Manchester bands are poor as well

@markrussell5587 Ай бұрын

@andrewdavy9921 Hahaha, thanks for your invaluable contribution, I take it you're mostly a take that fan

@BeatlesCentricUniverse Ай бұрын

@@markrussell5587 Thank you for that!